Daily Archives: August 29, 2017

From the FRONTIERS publication group and the “little engine that couldn’t, because climate change” department, comes this idiotic press-release masquerading as a science paper. Engineering and maintaining railway bridges has always been difficult — climate change, however, creates a whole new level of challenge Physicist Michio Kaku once said, “What we usually consider as impossible are…

Energy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 10:48 AM 08/29/2017 Former White House national security adviser Ben Rhodes used the devastation that Hurricane Harvey brought to Texas as an opportunity to attack Republican “denial” of global warming. Rhodes wondered how the GOP would tell future generations about its position on global warming. Former President Barack…

Yesterday, we carried a story from the Texas State Climatologist on a new 3-day rainfall record being set in Houston. Today, another record fell. Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service (NWS) announced that a gauge in Cedar Bayou, anear Mont Belvieu, Texas, recorded a preliminary rainfall of 51.88 inches. NOAA’s NCEP, shows in data that we have…

The hubub in the MSM and the Alt-Left is that they are hoping that they’ll be able to pin “ineffective response” on President Trump like they did for President Bush and the messed of response by FEMA to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Washington Post expects it will cost him votes. of course, we all…

Energy Michael Bastasch 4:28 PM 08/28/2017 From The Daily Caller The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) inspector general has opened an investigation to see whether or not taxpayers footed the bill for Administrator Scott Pruitt’s trips home to Oklahoma. “This assignment is being initiated based on congressional requests and a hotline complaint, all of which expressed…

Public Release: 28-Aug-2017 From Eurekalert Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Rising temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions will fundamentally change electricity consumption patterns in Europe. A team of scientists from Germany and the United States now analyzed what unchecked future warming means for Europe’s electricity demand: daily peak loads in Southern Europe will…

Guest essay by Eric Worrall It is predictable that climate alarmists like Michael Mann are quick to see anthropogenic influence in high profile extreme weather events, like Hurricane Harvey. But Mann’s message about Harvey has interesting implications for the Texan wind power industry. It’s a fact: climate change made Hurricane Harvey more deadly Michael E…

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